Observation of coherent mode induced by a molybdenum dust on EAST

The influence of a molybdenum dust buildup on plasma edge turbulence has been studied in the EAST tokamak.The motion of the dust from the upper divertor region is detected by a fast visible CCD camera,the XUV spectrometer arrays,and the EUV spectrometer.The MoXV emission intensity sharply increases compared with the spectral lines of various ionization states of other elements,which implies that the dust particles are the molybdenum impurities.The radial distribution of Mo^(14+)ion simulated by a simplified 1 D transport model indicates that the molybdenum dust mainly deposits in the pedestal bottom region.Moreover,it is observed that the coherent mode(CM)appears atρ=0.94 after the molybdenum impurities enter the main plasma region.The influx of molybdenum impurities results in increasing pedestal electron density and decreasing pedestal electron temperature in contrast to that before the event of impurities dropping.It is also found that the electron density gradient in the pedestal increases when the ablation of the molybdenum impurities is observed in the pedestal region.The qualitative experimental results indicate that the onset of CM is likely related to the increase of the density gradient and edge collisionality in the pedestal.In comparison to the density gradient,the enhancement of CM amplitude largely depends on the increase of the edge collisionality.

Wheat-RegNet:An encyclopedia of common wheat hierarchical regulatory networks

Dear Editor,Common wheat(Triticum aestivum,2n=6×=42,AABBDD)is the staple crop worldwide.Elucidating the gene regulatory network provides essential information for mechanism studies and targeted manipulation of gene activity for breeding.However,it is a challenging task given the extremely large(16 Gb)and complicated allohexaploid genome of common wheat.Integrating multi-omics data is a compelling approach to construct the hierarchical regulatory network.

CSCS:a chromatin state interface for Chinese Spring bread wheat

A chromosome-level genome assembly of the bread wheat variety Chinese Spring(CS)has recently been published.Genome-wide identification of regulatory elements(REs)responsible for regulating gene activity is key to further mechanistic studies.Because epigenetic activity can reflect RE activity,defining chromatin states based on epigenomic features is an effective way to detect REs.Here,we present the web-based platform Chinese Spring chromatin state(CSCS),which provides CS chromatin signature information.CSCS indudes 15 recently published epigenomic data sets including open chromatin and major chromatin marks,which are further partitioned into 15 distinct chromatin states.CSCS curates detailed information about these chromatin states,with trained self-organization mapping(SOM)for segments in all chromatin states and JBrowse visualization for genomic regions or genes.Motif analysis for genomic regions or genes,GO analysis for genes and SOM analysis for new epige-nomic data sets are also integrated into CSCS.In summary,the CSCS database contains the combina-torial patterns of chromatin signatures in wheat and facilitates the detection of functi onal elements and further clarification of regulatory activities.We illustrate how CSCS enables biological insights using one example,demonstrating that CSCS is a highly useful resource for intensive data mining.CSCS is available at http://bioinfo.cemps.ac.cn/CSCS/.